Local Government Finance

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what local authority revenue was provided from  (a) central Government,  (b) council tax revenues and  (c) special grants for each region in each of the last 12 years, ranked in descending order according to the size of increase.

John Healey: Details of local authority funding provided by central Government, council tax revenues and specific and special revenue grants for each region in England in each of the last 12 years are shown in the following tables.
	
		
			  Central Government grant 
			  £ million 
			   North East  North West( 1)  Yorks and Humber  East Midlands  West Midlands  East of England  Lon don  South East  South West  Total England 
			 1996-97 1,952 5,037 3,554 2,561 3,660 3,112 7,029 4,460 2,757 34,121 
			 1997-98 1,931 4,986 3,495 2,570 3,623 3,120 7,049 4,483 2,784 34,041 
			 1998-99 2,028 5,276 3,685 2,659 3,826 3,242 7,254 4,630 2,880 35,480 
			 1999-2000 2,146 5,529 3,876 2,793 4,010 3,391 7,533 4,809 3,024 37,112 
			 2000-01 1,418 3,588 2,455 1,614 2,493 1,891 5,519 2,537 1,624 23,139 
			 2001-02 2,288 5,897 4,153 3,022 4,287 3,740 8,096 5,301 3,264 40,048 
			 2002-03 2,309 5,957 4,181 3,034 4,322 3,754 8,206 5,323 3,270 40,358 
			 2003-04 2,496 6,514 4,565 3,352 4,760 4,094 8,790 5,781 3,588 43,940 
			 2004-05 2,611 6,830 4,777 3,540 5,049 4,307 9,271 6,044 3,743 46,172 
			 2005-06 2,767 7,226 5,058 3,771 5,395 4,594 9,833 6,410 4,004 49,058 
			 2006-07 1,573 3,819 2,624 1,784 2,723 2,011 5,784 2,714 1,825 24,857 
			 2007-08 1,622 3,943 2,708 1,855 2,819 2,086 5.964 2,787 1,893 25,677 
		
	
	
		
			  Council Tax 
			  £ million 
			   North East  North West( 1)  Yorks and Humber  East Midlands  West Midlands  East of England  Lon don  South East  South West  Total England 
			 1996-97 525 1,529 974 829 1,059 1,099 1,643 1,759 1,044 10,461 
			 1997-98 570 1,651 1,043 885 1,142 1,185 1,748 1,890 1,127 11,241 
			 1998-99 618 1,784 1,143 985 1,244 1,330 1,866 2,114 1,249 12,332 
			 1999-2000 660 1,887 1,211 1,071 1,343 1,457 1,999 2,297 1,353 13,278 
			 2000-01 695 1,988 1,283 1,153 1,435 1,583 2,127 2,474 1,462 14,200 
			 2001-02 736 2,111 1,380 1,238 1,551 1,709 2,301 2,655 1,565 15,245 
			 2002-03 803 2,234 1,492 1,374 1,686 1,902 2,482 2,930 1,745 16,648 
			 2003-04 879 2,442 1,656 1,518 1,869 2,209 2,955 3,415 2,004 18,946 
			 2004-05 938 2,576 1,772 1,633 1,980 2,376 3,174 3,678 2,172 20,299 
			 2005-06 985 2,698 1,868 1,712 2,077 2,492 3,324 3,867 2,291 21,315 
			 2006-07 1,028 2,834 1,968 1,802 2,179 2,633 3,505 4,083 2,421 22,453 
			 2007-08 1,077 2,977 2,070 1,894 2,284 2,785 3,659 4,305 2,557 23,608 
		
	
	
		
			  Specific and special Revenue grants 
			  £ million 
			   North East  North West( 1)  Yorks and Humber  East Midlands  West Midlands  East of England  Lon don  South East  South West  Total England 
			 1996-97 97 235 177 120 170 140 341 205 133 1,618 
			 1997-98 110 284 237 125 201 141 384 206 139 1,826 
			 1998-99 112 394 264 146 235 177 534 281 193 2,335 
			 1999-2000 143 441 326 193 289 216 713 382 219 2,921 
			 2000-01 216 649 471 311 425 358 1,223 595 364 4,615 
			 2001-02 332 946 681 419 591 486 1,888 742 472 6,558 
			 2002-03 457 1,269 850 578 811 666 2,484 1,059 717 8,891 
			 2003-04 662 1,740 1,142 806 1,119 842 4,831 1,368 902 13,413 
			 2004-05 733 1,978 1,201 925 1,186 946 4,604 1,509 1,009 14,090 
			 2005-06 781 2,074 1,332 968 1,303 1,031 4,660 1,567 1,070 14,785 
			 2006-07 2,098 5,789 4,081 3,216 4,266 3,903 9,403 5,524 3,462 41,741 
			 2007-08 2,203 6,052 4,368 3,390 4,530 4,115 10,123 5,948 3,757 44,486 
			 (1) Includes Merseyside  Source:  Communities and Local Government Revenue Outturn Summary (RS) returns. 
		
	
	The definition of central Government grant used here is the sum of formula grant (revenue support grant, redistributed business rates and police grant) and Greater London Authority (GLA) grant. In past years, where applicable the SSA reduction grant and Central Support Protection Grants have also been included.
	The definition of specific and special grants used here is Specific grants inside Aggregate External Finance (AEF), i.e. revenue grants paid for council's core services.
	Figures exclude grants outside AEF (i.e. where funding is not for authorities' core services, but is passed to a third party, for example, rent allowances and rebates), capital grants, funding for the local authorities' housing management responsibilities and those grant programmes (such as European funding) where authorities are simply one of the recipients of funding paid towards an area.
	Comparison across years may not be valid owing to changing local authority responsibilities.